Today for the first time, the Army admitted some of the accusations were true. Reuters reports:

“The head of the Kenyan Defense Forces (KDF) said two members of a special combat unit had been dismissed from the force and jailed and a third was under investigation, though he rejected reports of systematic, large-scale looting by troops.

“‘Discipline is our core driving point and we are not playing with this issue. That is why we have taken action on these soldiers,’ General Julius Karangi told a news briefing, adding the guilty men had stolen mobile phones and cameras.”

The BBC reports that CCTV footage from the day of siege showed soldiers looting a supermarket, but the military had said they were only taking water because they were thirsty.

Reuters adds that this is a major blow to the military, which was one of the country’s most admired organizations.

The AP reports that this same kind of thing happened back in August, when emergency crews responded to a huge fire at Nairobi’s airport. An investigation found that first responders had “had looted electronics, a bank and an ATM during and after the blaze.”